I’VE NO REGRETS INSISTS SACKED SIMON
SACKED Sunderland boss Simon Grayson says he has no regrets about taking over at the Stadium of Light – despite lasting less than five months in the job.
Grayson left Preston in the summer to become Black Cats boss yet was sacked with the club languishing in the bottom three.
The former Leeds and Blackpool boss does not think he made a mistake in making the move in the summer. Speaking on EFL Matters, Grayson said: “Obviously I’d still like to be there. We felt it would be a tough job when we went in and I have no regrets in taking it.
“I had a stable job at Preston but I felt it was too big an opportunity to turn down. We were turning it around slightly.
“There was a lot of work still to be done, as Chris (Coleman) is going to find out over the next few weeks, but it just didn’t work out for a number of reasons unfortunately.
“We went in there and had to galvanise the group to make sure we’d changed the mentality of the players around us – and we were doing that at the training ground.
“But it’s all judged on results and they weren’t good enough. Hence why you lose your job, and circumstances, sometimes out of our control, weren’t helping us along the way.”
Despite new manager Chris Coleman losing his first game in charge against Aston Villa on Tuesday, Grayson expects Sunderland to turn things around.
He added: “Somewhere down the line it’s going to change, a club like Sunderland is not going to continue to lose games.
“That home form is eventually going to turn around, but when you get relegated as a club the one thing any manager needs is time.
“Unfortunately, I wasn’t allowed that.”